VESSEL

VESSEL
Gaivotas Em Terra

Filipe Baptista

VESSEL

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Thursday-Monday •

Duration: 60min
Age-range: +12
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𝙸𝙽𝚃𝙴𝚁𝙵𝙻𝚄𝙴̂𝙽𝙲𝙸𝙰𝚂: 30 mai | tue | 18h
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𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐓𝐒: 7€ / 10€ / 12€
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In “VESSEL” a hybrid device between the organic and the machine is presented. The performers, as well as the spectators, are translated into data, transformed and returned to the room in a new configuration. This space centers itself on a living machine – a post- consciousness that, through microphones, infrared sensors and the computer, processes the present matter.

Here, the echo and the trail of the bodies that pass by are manifested, conjuring up a liminal zone. Entering this space is like accessing the cosmos of H. P. Lovecraft’s “womb of Cthulhu”, the axis mundi of an interstitial and transitory place, such as “the Zone” by A. Tarkovski, the epicenter of a “spiritual circle”, where the physical and immaterial transference can bring us closer to a place of transcendence – of what is “beyond” the threshold.
In this architecture, the bodies are potentiated as vectors for activating and receiving matter, essential members of a network that reflects on transference, encounter and transformation of the habitat.

direction: Filipe Baptista
activation vectors: público presente, Ana Silva, António Olaio, 
Beatriz Almeida, Teresa Manjua
sound design: Filipe Baptista
light design: João Pedro Fonseca
digital architecture and programming: Filipe Baptista
creation assistance: Carincur, Pedro Baptista
co-production: YEP, uma parceria entre Rua das Gaivotas 6/Teatro Praga e O Espaço do Tempo
co-production residency: O Espaço do Tempo
residencies: Binaural/Nodar, Pro.Dança, Rua das Gaivotas6
support: República Portuguesa – Cultura, DGArtes – Direção-Geral das Artes, SelfMistake, ZABRA, Rua das Gaivotas 6/Teatro Praga

Filipe Baptista
Transdisciplinary artist who develops work in the fields of performance, sound and digital interaction and installation art.
In 2015 he completed the MSc in Multimedia at IUL, Lisbon, and collaborates since 2018 with several creators working with different types of media. He created the transdisciplinary project “A.T.M.A.”, already performed in several places such as Bienal de Artes de Coimbra, ZABRA, etc. His most recent piece, “VESSEL”, comes from his investigation on the intersection of the organic body and the machine, exploring questions such as the mediation of invisible matter, liminality and transcendence.